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The Chattanooga Times Free Press tracks new building projects and has an interactive map<\/a> showing where they are. A new article includes commentary from CRER director and chief economist Howard Wall<\/a> about his recent white paper on housing affordability<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“People are still moving in,” Wall said by phone. “Not as rapidly as before, because that was a little crazy.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Younger, educated people moving to Chattanooga<\/a>\u00a0are raising the area’s median income, and they’re also driving trends toward smaller homes or townhomes, Wall said. The average square footage of homes on the market has decreased 12%, from around 2,200 in 2019 to around 1,970 now, a paper published by Wall this week shows.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

High mortgage rates, and uncertainty about when those will fall, is still the biggest obstacle for homebuyers, Wall said. Those costs can’t really be offset by construction, he said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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